You may find the following read about that mercola website of some interest:http://www.randi.org/jr/052303.html It's just a little down from the top although the rest of the page is good for yucks and giggles. Indeed...vaccinate.
The article outlines what happened when a similar anti-vaccination hysteria broke out in the 1970s in Sweden and later in "modern" countries. Guess what happened?
One of the sickest patients I took care of during my medical training was an infant who had not been vaccinated against pertussis. I heard that child's coughing in my sleep for weeks.
Although the child ultimately did quite well, he was critically ill for an extended period.